This year, I totally splurged and got Chrissy a jewelry armoire. It’s a beautiful piece of mission style furniture, with lots of places to store expensive treasures. Ok, too many places for the too few pieces of jewelry that Chrissy owns. But this gives me an excuse to resort to jewelry for any gift-giving holiday where I...
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I’m still trying to decide which online trading firm to go with next. I still want to trade in Canadian Uranium stocks, but I’m having trouble finding an online trading firm that will let me do it. Interactive Brokers allows you to do trading directly with the Canadian stock exchange, but they charge a minimum of $10 a...
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Getting out of FirstTrade was almost as bad as getting in. It took several weeks and multiple faxed forms to get the account ready and activate money transfers between my bank and my new trading account. I should have expected to have to go through hell to get my money back out. And if I had, I wouldn’t have been...
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I’m so sick. Well, maybe not dying with fever and flu, but sick nevertheless. My throat is scratchy and sore, I’m having bad headaches, and I’m coughing up a lung (which doesn’t help my throat any). I took Wednesday off of work, and then felt guilty because I didn’t feel nearly as bad towards the end of...
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Chrissy’s dad is a huge Bears fan, so everyone was pretty excited when the 2006 Bears made it to the Superbowl. Aiden even got a little Bears jersey to wear while we watched the commercials. Grandma, Grandpa and Cassie came over to see Aiden in his little outfit before the game. Unfortunately, the Bears didn’t win this...
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My friends Brad and Cristiane just celebrated their daughter’s first birthday. They held a party for her at the Gymboree in Dyer, and Aiden was invited. I was surprised at how much stuff that Gymboree had for babies and toddlers. Aiden enjoyed himself for about an hour, but then got fussy and fell asleep towards the...
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